It Just Makes Me Sicko
The first was an article by the McKinsey Quarterly, which I must say is a must read for all health care professionals. It gives a great overview of business as a whole and ideas can be taken from the articles about other industries and related to health care. Anyways the article was titled, "Ten Trends to Watch in 2006." Not very current, but useful all the same. Of particular interest to me was trend #6, the role and behavior of big business will come under increasingly sharp scrutiny. This trend didn't take a great amount of foresight, but it is beginning to take hold of the health care industry.
Which leads me to the second article I read today on the Alan Katz Health Care Reform Blog. This article discussed the new documentary by director Michael Moore titled, Sicko. Mr. Moore's goal is "to eliminate private, profit-making health-insurance companies." Mr. Katz discusses in several postings about how Mr. Moore's film is created to mislead the public into thinking that a single-payer system is the solution to the U.S. health care problem.
I have written before about the need for members of the community to come together to help improve the health care system as a whole. It is my opinion that big business and insurance companies are not "bad", and don't need to be attacked in any manner. Health care workers need to fight this label that is being put on them that they are only interested in profits and care nothing for the people. Mr. Moore's work does allow for the discussion to take place on a larger scale, but it is destructive in a manner that brings us farther from a solution.
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